FIGURE 7.

Pilot study to assess the functionality and performance of FlexiPalm. (a) Participants' assessment of comfort, inconspicuousness, and ease of removal of FlexiPalms. (b) Scoring of the conditions of FlexiPalms upon the completion of the tasks assigned to the participants. (c) Scoring of the comfort of FlexiPalms throughout the completion of the tasks assigned to the participants. (d) Participants' preference of hand PPE for protection against fomite transmission of viruses. (e) Images of a participant donning on FlexiPalm before and after performing the activities in the pilot study. (f) FE‐SEM images of the surface of FlexiPalm before and after loading. (g) Mechanical properties of FlexiPalm before and after loading. (h) Characterization of the skin irritability of FlexiPalm by measuring the cell viability of the reconstructed human epidermal tissue. ****P < .0001 and ns indicates not significant. FE‐SEM, field emission scanning electron microscopy